Seattle-based electrical bike maker Rad Energy Bikes has simply introduced the most important replace to its total product lineup but, promising full UL-compliance for its batteries and e-bikes.

The transfer comes as UL-listing is seen as an more and more in style difficulty amongst e-bike makers, clients, and native governments in search of methods to control e-bike security.

In accordance with Rad Energy Bikes, all the firm’s e-bikes shifting ahead might be compliant with UL 2849 and all the firm’s lithium-ion batteries might be compliant with UL 2271.

UL 2849, often called the “UL Customary for Electrical Techniques for eBikes,” supplies hearth security certification by analyzing {the electrical} drive prepare, battery, and charger system mixtures in e-bikes. The usual covers your complete e-bike drivetrain, together with the battery.

UL 2271, by comparability, applies simply to batteries utilized in gentle electrical automobiles (LEVs) reminiscent of e-bikes and e-scooters. The usual covers the security necessities for the design, manufacture, and testing of lithium-ion batteries utilized in LEVs.

By adopting each requirements, Rad is making certain complete hearth security compliance all through the methods utilized in all of its electrical bikes shifting ahead.

Rad’s announcement comes simply because the deadline is reached for New York Metropolis’s e-bike ban on non-UL-compliant electrical bikes. Six months in the past, New York Metropolis introduced the ban to fight the rising variety of fires related to lithium-ion batteries utilized in gadgets like e-scooters and e-bikes.

Whereas the variety of fires was fairly small in comparison with the a whole bunch of 1000’s of gadgets being charged every day, they’ve nonetheless led to various deaths within the metropolis. The comparatively small variety of fires brought on by batteries in e-bikes and e-scooters normally come from ultra-low-cost merchandise which have skimped on security tips throughout their manufacturing.

A number of faculty campuses have additionally begun instituting blanket bans on electrical bikes on campus, although many of those fears are based mostly on a misunderstanding of the particular hearth dangers and make no exceptions for UL-listed e-bikes.

In the present day’s announcement makes Rad Energy Bikes the biggest electrical bike maker but to announce full UL-compliance for its e-bikes and lithium-ion batteries. It’s a pattern that’s all however positive to broaden, particularly contemplating Rad’s position as a pattern chief in lots of facets of the e-bike trade.